Anita Felicelli is the author of the short story collection Love Songs for a Lost Continent (Stillhouse Press), which won the 2016 Mary Roberts Rinehart Award, praised by Porochista Khakpour as a book we needed to read yesterday...a book we will still be reading tomorrow. Anita's fiction has appeared in The Normal School, Joyland, The Rumpus, and her essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Slate, SF Chronicle, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, and others. She graduated from UC Berkeley and attended UC Berkeley School of Law, and has worked as a litigator in diverse fields, including arts, criminal defense, civil rights, clergy abuse, and construction litigation. A member of the National Book Critics Circle and an alum of Voices of Our Nations, she is a two-time recipient of the Greater Bay Area Journalism award, as well as multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Anita Felicelli was born in South India and grew up in the Bay Area, where she currently lives with her spouse and three children.